Niels Riksen#


Niels Riksen
Membership Number:6891
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE
Elected:2024
Main Country of Residence:THE NETHERLANDS
Homepage(s):https://www.radboudumc.nl/en/people/niels-riksen
ORCID:0000-0001-9197-8124
Twitter:@NielsPR





Present and Previous Positions
  • 2014 - current Full professor of Vascular Medicine, Radboud university medical center (Radboudumc). Head Division of Vascular Medicine.
  • 2019 - 2020 Head of Department of Internal Medicine ad interim (1.5 years), Radboudumc
  • 2017 - 2019:Chair "Internistisch Vasculair Genootschap" (IVG; national society for vascular medicine)
  • 2010 Internist, specialist in Vascular Medicine, Radboudumc
  • 2002 - 2010 Combined residency Internal Medicine & PhD in clinical Pharmacology, Radboudumc
  • 2007 - 2008 Postdoctoral research fellow Hatter Cardiovascular Institute, University College London, UK (1 year)

Fields of Scholarship
  • Innate immune cell reprogramming, metabolic and epigenetic reprogramming
  • Atherosclerosis pathophysiology
  • Innate immune memory, trained innate immunity
  • Inflammation

Honours and Awards
  • 2008 Vascular Medicine Award of the Dutch Society for Vascular Medicine and MSD (NVVG-MSD)
  • 2008 Award for best Ph.D. thesis by the Dutch Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Biopharmacy (NVKF&B)
  • 2008 Einthoven Award 2008 (“Einthoven Dissertatieprijs”) for best Ph.D. thesis by the Dutch Heart Foundation and the Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands (ICIN)
  • 2006 Excellence3 Award from the Netherlands Foundation for Cardiovascular Excellence because of clinical, scientific, and presenting excellence (30 k Euro)

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